I watched this movie and had to leave for a very important 15 minutes, enough to miss at least two of the covicts deaths. And when I came back I got the idea the priest was stuck and everyone got to the boat but, in hero-like fashion Harry went back. The two had a nice little conversation then the island blew -- the end. Did Harry feel he had something to atone for? After all, he did have a future now with a pretty wife .... What dd I miss?
shareReplying late as I've just finished the movie. Harry's motives are unclear. Once he gets back to the chasm,
SPOILERS
Charlie dies. A bit later Harry says to Doonan, "See you around" as if he's ready to go back to the beach. This makes no sense because he knows the schooner has already left.
Therefore I can only surmise that Harry just wanted to keep Charlie company. He wasn't too concerned about Doonan, because after Charlie dies, he's willing to leave the priest all by himself again. It was only random timing that the final eruption caught them both at the same time and place.
"Did Harry feel he had something to atone for? After all, he did have a future now with a pretty wife .... What dd I miss?"
They covered it when Harry and Camille and the rest of the hospital people get to the schooner. Harry tells her he HAS to go back because he "missed the boat a long time ago." Apparently the idea is that before this moment, Harry would have left Charlie to die alone, and gone off with Camille to a better future. As Harry runs off, Camille says, "Let him go," as if she understands that this is something Harry needs to do. That's all the explanation and motivation that the film gives.
Hated that part to me it didn't and still doesn't make sense.
See some stars here
http://www.vbphoto.biz/
Its a very powerful moment as it shows this criminal who in the end, finds his humanity at the last moment. And its a surprising move too as you expect him to do the logical thing and go with the lovely girl and live.
Some people simply cannot live with "what ifs" or the knowledge that they could have done right and didnt, as it were. Or he had something to prove to himself, that he wasnt past redemption after all.
You get a simmilar sense of this to a lesser degree in Earthquake.
Its a very powerful moment as it shows this criminal who in the end, finds his humanity at the last moment. And its a surprising move too as you expect him to do the logical thing and go with the lovely girl and live.
I agree
It was a silly ending to the movie, simple as that.
I am a four eyed evil genius.
None of the motivations of the characters made sense in this movie, LOL. Remember, everyone, that Father Doonan not only beat the crap out of Harry, he almost strangled him to death. Harry throughout the entire film had been shown to be the kind of guy that holds grudges, but now he's running back to save a priest who beat him down days before--and abandoning a beautiful blind girl in the process?
The only somewhat reasonable explanation I can come up with is that with Doonan trapped up on the mountain, Harry figured that his chances of having his sentence commuted were shot. (Remember, Doonan knew a high ranking official in Tahiti). With Doonan trapped, he might have just decided to give up escaping the island, since it would have meant being trapped in Tahiti in horrible conditions for 8 years without his friends to get him through it. But I can't imagine anyone wanting to commit suicide by volcano. That's just crazy.
---
Emojis=💩 Emoticons=